Senior Privacy Counsel (Regulatory & AI), Dublin, London, Paris or Brussels

Responsibilities

About the Team
We are looking for a highly motivated experienced privacy and AI lawyer to join our European Regulatory team. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career in a company that is enjoying hyper growth on a truly international scale and advise on cutting edge products and features.

Our Regulatory team provides essential guidance to TikTok and its family of products, ensuring that our innovation is matched with compliance, responsibility, and foresight. We empower the business by navigating complex regulatory landscapes, shaping strategies that allow our teams to achieve their boldest ambitions while meeting evolving legal and policy expectations. The Regulatory team is responsible for managing global regulatory matters, including advising on new and existing frameworks, engaging with regulators, and ensuring proactive alignment with fast-changing laws across multiple jurisdictions.

Responsibilities
- Advise and lead on regulatory engagement and investigations regarding data protection and AI matters;
- Assisting with and driving large cross-functional projects aimed at proactively bolstering GDPR and AI Act compliance;
- Support other regulatory matters relating to the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act and other new and upcoming digital regulations in the EU and UK;
- Support on regulatory engagement in conjunction with the Government Relations team;
- Closely collaborating and coordinating with the product, public policy and communications teams on regulatory and policy strategies, external communication and investigations;
- Support our privacy and AI Act compliance programme, policies and procedures for TikTok in Europe;
- Assess and advise on best practice under GDPR and the AI Act.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years' regulatory and/or privacy and/or AI experience at a law firm or in-house. (We will consider strong individuals with less or more experience);
- Strong written and oral communication skills are essential;
- Highly organised, self motivated and capable of driving forward challenging projects;
- Comfortable providing sound advice under tight deadlines and managing competing priorities;
- Ability to work on a large number and variety of high profile and strategic projects and navigate ambiguous legal and regulatory environments;
- Excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate effectively with legal colleagues and other cross functional stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:
- EU or UK qualified lawyer, ideally with 1-2 years (as part of the minimum 5 years experience noted above) in a regulatory and/or product legal compliance role from a well regarded private practice team or established in-house department.